Tuesday, May 19, 2009

Is Brown going to purge is enemies?

Sky News is obviously running with the Speaker story, but they're also running with the news that Brown has met with the NEC and all Labour MPs that are found to have broken the rules will not be standing at the next election.

Who wants to bet that such an internal rule will be used by Brown to get rid of his enemies whilst his allies get off on some technicality? Stalin purged with violence, I can't help thinking that Brown will try to use expenses as a means to purge his own ranks of rivals.

I've just seen the headlines on Sky and exactly the same thing crossed my mind. They all claim not to have broken the rules, so it shouldn't be too hard to protect all but the most egregious offenders and come down like a ton of bricks on his enemies.

At least, that's what he'll be thinking. It won't do them a blind bit of good come the election. Until recently, I'd have said it would take dynamite to remove some of these MPs, but if Martin's in trouble in Springburn (and I think he is), anything could happen.